Al Arabiya TV said the Houthis struck a merchant vessel in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait with a ballistic missile today, killing three foreign nationals.

Tianjin’s municipal development and reform commission published a city-level Tianjin Population High-Quality Development 15th Five-Year Plan, targeting by 2030 a resident population of about 13.7 million and a net increase of 700,000 in hukou population. The plan sets a health literacy target of 46% and a life-expectancy target of 83.2 years, aims to keep the urbanization rate above 86% and to stabilise the surveyed urban unemployment rate, and calls for a substantial expansion in supply of affordable childcare and nursing-care eldercare beds to raise living standards.

China's Shanghai Composite Index closed down 32.5 points (-0.82%) at 3,934.09 on Tuesday; Shenzhen Composite Index fell 57.52 points (-0.40%) to 14,259.44; CSI 300 Index dropped 38.24 points (-0.81%) to 4,663.79; ChiNext Index rose 11.95 points (+0.34%) to 3,549.16; China's STAR 50 Index fell 28.27 points (-1.63%) to 1,709.50.